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Music From 100 Years Ago

Brice Fuquabfuqua.libsyn.com
Recordings from the early 20th Century with comments.
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Episodes

Be My Valentine

Love songs for Valentine's Day, including: How My Sweetie Loves Me, Love Walked In, We're Back Togetheer and Will You Love Me in December. Artists include: Helen Kane, Louis Armstrong, Cliff Edwards and Ruth Etting.

Feb 07, 200931 min

Harlem Renaissance

Music of the Harlem Renaissance. Performers include: Paul Robeson, Bill Robinson, Ethyl Waters, Duke Ellington and the Reverend Gary Davis. Songs include: Old Man River, Jungle Jamboree, Have a Little More Faith in Jesus and Harlem Camp Meeting.

Feb 01, 200941 min

Mozart's Birthday

Music for Mozart's birthday. Music includes: Jupiter Symphony, Clarinet Quintet, Queen of the Night Aria and Piano Concerto 21. Performers include: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Lily Pons, Bruno Walter and Wilhelm Furtwaengler.

Jan 24, 200940 min

Home Sweet Home

Songs of home including: Let's Spend the Evening at Home, Goin Home, Baby Won't You Please Come Home and No Place Like Home. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Bert Williams, the Boswell Sisters, Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith.

Jan 17, 200930 min

Torch Singers

Torch Singers of the 1920s and 1930s, including: Libby Holman, Josephine Baker, Helen Morgan, Marion Harris and Frances Langford. Songs include: Love For Sale, Can't Help Lovin That Man, Les Mots DAmour and I'm In the Mood For Love.

Jan 11, 200940 min

1909

The hits from 100 years ago, including: I've Got Rings on My Fingers, Let's Go Into a Picture Show, The National Emblem and I Love My Wife, But Oh You Kid. Performers include: Ada Jones, Steve Porter, Byron G. Harlin and the Arthur Pyror Band.

Jan 03, 200931 min

Leftovers Number Six

Records left off of previous podcasts. Music includes: God's Got a Crown, Grinder Man Blues, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Horses and Tea For Two. Performers include: Memphis Slim, Arizona Dranes, Red Norvo, the Berlin Philharmonic and Blanche Calloway.

Dec 28, 200833 min

Great Depression

Songs from the Great Depression, including: Brother Can You Spare a Dime?, Wrap Up Your Troubles in Dreams, Hobo Jungle Blues and When You Wish Upon a Star. Performers include: Mildred Bailey, Bing Crosby, Ted Lewis, Cliff Edwards and Sleepy John Estes.

Dec 20, 200844 min

Beethoven's Birthday

For Beethoven's birthday, a special, short podcast featuring the final movment of the symphony #6 by the BBC Symphony conducted by Arturo Toscanini from 1937.

Dec 16, 200811 min

The Christmas Show

Christmas records from the teens through the 30s. Songs include: I Want You For Christmas, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, The Nutcracker and Auld Lang Syne. Artists include: The Carol Singers, Tommy Dorsey, Rev. J.M. Gates and Guy Lombardo.

Dec 13, 200838 min

Drags

Songs include: Blue Drag, Varsity Drag, Saratoga Drag and Five O'Clock Drag. Performers include: Cab Calloway, George Olson, Jelly Roll Morton and Cow Cow Davenport.

Dec 06, 200829 min

Count Up 1 to 8

More number songs including: Dinner at Eight, Five Foot Two, You Are the One and Three O' Clock in the Morning. Artist include: Gene Austin, Hazel Scott, Bing Crosby and Bem Selvin.

Nov 28, 200831 min

Countdown 7 to 1

Songs with numbers in the titles; plus pointless trivia about numbers. Songs include: Tea For Two, The Fives, I'm In Seventh Heaven and Three Little Words.Artists include: Ethyl Waters, Count Basie, Fats Waller, Marion Harris and Wingy Manone.

Nov 22, 200836 min

Star Songs

Songs about stars. Songs include: Dancing Under the Stars, Come Down My Evening Star, I Saw Stars and Stardust. Performers include: Lillian Russel, Willie the Lion Smith, Bing Crosby and Cab Calloway.

Nov 15, 200832 min

Boogie Woogie Part 2

The musicians who brought boogie woogie into mainstream popularity in the 1930s and 1940s. Pianists include: Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, Hazel Scott and Jimmy Yancey. Tunes include: Boogie Woogie Prayer, Bass Goin Crazy, Hazel's Boogie and Movin the Boogie.

Nov 08, 200831 min

Boogie Woogie Part 1

Early boogie woogie pianists including: Jimmy Blythe, Cow Cow Davenport, Pinetop Smith and Romeo Nelson. Tunes include: Pinetop's Boogie Woogie, Chicago Stomp, Cow Cow Blues and Head Rag Hop.

Nov 01, 200833 min

Halloween Show

Music for Halloween, including: Haunted House Blues, The Skeleton in the Closet, Mr Ghost Goes to Town and Graveyard Blues. Performers include: Helen Gross, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Davis and Woody Herman.

Oct 25, 200827 min

Happy Songs

Songs with happy in the title. Songs include: Happy Days Are Here Again, Is Everybody Happy?, Let Me Sing and I'm Happy and There's Always a Happy Ending. Performers include: Ted Lewis, Helen Kane, Lee Morse, Bing Crosby and Al Jolson.

Oct 18, 200828 min

Delta Blues

Early Mississippi Delta Blues Singers, including: Charley Patton, Son House, Bo Carter, Robert Johnson and Blind Willie McTell. Songs include: Screamin and Hollerin the Blues, Spike Driver Blues, I Believe I'll Dust My Broom and Sitting on Top of the World.

Oct 12, 200836 min

Birds

Songs about birds, including: Bye Bye Blackbird, Turkey in the Straw, Bluebird Blues and The Bird on Nelly's Hat. Artists include: Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, Helen Trix, Cab Calloway and Sonny Boy Williamson.

Sep 29, 200830 min

More Piano Music

Piano music of all types. Pianists include: Teddy Wilson, Ignaz Paderewski, George Gershwin, Art Tatum and Arizona Dranes. Music Includes: Honky Tonk Train Blues, Rhapsody in Blue, Polonaise #1 and Tea For Two.

Sep 21, 200838 min

Isham Jones

Music by bandleader and songwriter Isham Jones. Songs include: I'll See You in My Dreams, Wabash Blues, There is No Greater Love and Stardust. Other musicians include: Al Jolson, Woody Herman and Cliff Edwards.

Sep 14, 200834 min

Transportation

Songs involving cars, trains, planes and boats. Songs include: In My Merry Oldsmobile, The Wreck of the Old 97, Come Josephine in My Flying Machine and Sailing Down Chesapeake Bay. Artists include: Billy Murray, Ada Jones, Vernon Dalhart and the Memphis Jug Band.

Sep 07, 200830 min

Mississippi

This week, musicians from Mississippi, including: Jimmie Rodgers, Mississippi John Hurt, The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Sonny Boy Williamson and Lester Young. Songs include: Lady Be Good, Blue Bird, Mississippi Moon, Ol Miss Rag and Dream Daddy Blues.

Aug 31, 200840 min

Fruit Basket

Songs about fruit, including: Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries, I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time, On a Coconut Island and Black Raspberry Jam. Performers include: Cliff Edwards, Andy Iona, Rudy Valley, Fats Waller and the Memphis Jug Band.

Aug 24, 200830 min

Xylophones

Xylophone, marimba and vibraphone recordings. Songs include: Triplets, Who's Sorry Now?, Memories of You and Avelon. Artists include: Lionel Hampton, Red Norvo, George Hamilton Green and Adrian Rollini.

Aug 16, 200837 min

Walter Donaldson

Music by songwriter, Walter Donaldson. Songs include: Carolina in the Morning, My Blue Heaven, Love Me or Leave Me and You're Driving Me Crazy. Performers include: Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Josephine Baker and Nora Bayes.

Aug 10, 200841 min

1929 Part 4

Songs include: Happy Days, I Faw Down, When You're Smiling, Train Whistle Blues and Sweetheart of Yesterday. Artists include: The Casa Loma Orchestra, Bessie Smith, Jimmie Rodgers, Bennie Moten, Annette Hanshaw and Louis Armstrong.

Aug 01, 200834 min

Orchestral Music

Music includes: Liszt's Hungarian Rhaposdy 2, Beethoven's Egmont Overture and Smetana's Bartered Bride Overture. Conductors include: Leopold Stokowski, Hamilton Harty and Wilhelm Furtwangler.

Jul 25, 200846 min

Money Songs

Songs about money, including: We're in the Money, Broke and Hungry, Don't Let Your Deal Go Down and Brother Can You Spare a Dime? Musicians include: Ted Lewis, Bing Crosby, Blind Lemon Jeffferson, Fletcher Henderson and Bert Williams.

Jul 19, 200830 min
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